A former open pit Fe mine located in secs. 34, 35 & 36, T3S, R14E, SBM, in the Eagle Mountains.

Mineralization is a replacement deposit hosted in limestone and quartzite.

This large open pit mine used to provide iron ore to Kaiser Steel Corporation's smelter in Fontana, California. The pit is currently (2009) owned by Kaiser Ventures, of Ontario, California, who had wanted to use it as a trash dump which had been planned to receive 20,000 tons per day of Los Angeles City garbage for the next 117 years. Because of numerous objections from environmentalists, who feared the site's impact on neighboring Joshua Tree National Park, which surrounds the pit on three sides at a distance of 2.5 km, and also objections from neighboring jojoba farmers, the trash disposal plans have been held up in court for years. On November 12th, 2009, the ban on the trash disposal plan was upheld by the Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.

Local structures include an East-West-trending anticline, and NW-striking faults.

Production data are found in: Dubois and Brummett (1968): 1596. (1-4) World Mining Developments 1979-1980: 417.

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